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Gamin (faire le), ,.

Gates (two to port towns).

Geography in its bearings on Morality

Geomantic process.

Gharam (Pr. N.) = eagerness, de

sire, love-longing. ,

Ghaza (Artemisia-shrub).

Ghost (phantom = Tayf)

Ghurrah = blaze on a horse's fore

head

Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health

Give a man luck and throw him into

the sea

Goad (of the donkey-boy)

Gossamer (names for)

Grave (levelling slave and sovereign)

Hair-strings (of black silk). , 311

■■ (significance of). . . 313

Hajib = groom, chamberlain,. 233

Hajin (tall camel). ... .67

Hamah (soul of a murdered man in

form of a bird sprung from his

head) 293

Hammam-bath a luxuiy as well as a

necessity ..... 19

Hands behind the back (posture of

submission) ., . .218

■ stained in stripes like ring-

rows of a chain-armour. .176

Harut and Marut (sorcerer-angels). 217

Harwalah = pas gymnastique. . 121

Hkshshashun := assassins. , 91

Hashish, see Bhang. , ., ib.

orgie in London. . . ib,

Hawar = intensity of black and

white in the eyes. , . 233

Hawi = juggler playing tricks with

snakes ..... 145

Hawk, see Bashik, Bazi,. 61 ; 138

Haydt al-Nufus = Life of Souls. 283

Hazir and Badi =: townsman and

nomad 234

Head (must always be kept covered) 275

Headsman delaying execution. » 42

Hemistichs divided. ., .166

Hermaphrodites (Khunis^). • 306

Heroine of Eastern Romance eats

well 168

Hijl = partridge. . .', 138

" Him " for " her '♦ ... 78

Hinges (of ancient doors),. 41

Hips, leanness of, "anti-pathetic " to

Easterns 226

Hoof (of the wild ass). . . 235

Horripilation cr gooseflesh. . 2

Horse (names of the) ... 72

' stealing honourable. . 73

Host (enters first as safe-guafd

against guet-apens) . . . 208

Houris ..... 233

Hudhud = hoopoe .... 128

Hut, see Houris .... 233

Hurr = free, noble, independent

opp. to 'Abd = servile. . 44

iBLfs = the Despairer

Ibn Abdun a]-Ajidalusi (poet).

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